Railroad tie



Jan. 8, 1929.

J. SUTINEN RAILROAD TIE Filed Feb. 25, 1928 Patented Jan. 8, 1929.

JOHN SUTINEN, or Two HARBORS, virriNNnso'rA'.

'BAILBOAD TIE. I 7

Application filedFebruary 2 3, 1928. Serial No .2 56,183.

Thisinvention relates torailroad ties and has special reference to improvements upon the type of tie patented to me Nocember 29th, 1927, No. 1,651,106, the principal object being to provide a more practical and eflicient tie of this type and attachments therefor.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the further description thereof.

Referring now to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this application, and wherein like reference characters indicate like parts: 7

Figure 1 is a top plan view of one of my improved ties and rail mountings therefor, one of the latter being complete and the other incomplete;

Figure 2 is an elevation of the tie with rails mounted thereupon;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the body port-ion of the tie proper;

I Figure 4 is an elevation of the preferred form of tie assembly at a rail joint;

Figure 5 is a perspective view of one of the mounting members for the tie; i

Figure 6 is a similar view of the rail engagingysaddles of the tie;

igure 7 is a plan view of the improved form of anti-spreading device cooperatively connected with the tie; and

Figure 8 is a similar view of the antispreading holding means.

1 represents the tie body which I prefer to make of T-iron construction with the web 2 thereof in upright position when in use, though it is obvious that a plane angle such as used in my before mentioned patent may be employed if preferred.

As a pracitcal and simple mounting for the rail adjacent each end of the tie I provide the channel shaped housing member 8 for bolting directly to one side of the web 2 of the tie body, and this channel is preferably the fulldepth of the web of the tie and designed to hold tightly against the web a suit able wooden or other like yieldable block 4 the ends of said channel being spaced from the web of the tie for such purpose; the man-1 ner of fastening said housing 3 differing from myformer patent in that holes are provided indicated at 5 directly therethrough so; that the bolts for attaching same to the web of a tie are made to pass directly through not only the body portion of the housing but the wood or other cushioning member held'between it and the tie-webthus providing a much more simple and efficientform of; housing-than in my former patent.- The block .4 I prefer to provide with'pro-perly spaced and sized vertical through holes as indicated at 6 for the reception of the rail holding spikes indicated at 7. On top of this assembly, directly beneath the rail, is placed the U-shaped saddle member 8, it being rovided with suitable holes indicated at 9 'or the reception of the spikes. There are also formed in the base of the tie body holes indicated at 10 which are equally spaced and like the holes 9 in the sad-v dle 8, and one novel and advantageous feature of my present construction is that the spikes 7 are sufiiciently long to extend wholly through the base of the tie body, as clearly seenin Figure 2 of the drawings.

Intermediate of each extreme end of the tie and the saddle installation for the rail is 5' formed in the upper edge of the web thereof a downwardly and inclined notch 11 for the reception of the wishbone rail anti-spreading member 12, the apex of which is slightly flattened as at 13- for convenient engagement on the bolt and it is obvious that when this adjusting bolt is hooked over the two diverging legs of the wishbone and the nut drawn up it Will draw the extremeends of the antispreading member together and tend to increase the distance between the notch 11 in the tie and the top of the rail, thusadequately acting as a secure anti-rail spreadingmember which as is understood bythose conversant with the art are ordinarily used only at curves or the like but I prefer to e uip all of the ties with cooperative means or the utilization of such.

' In the use of my invention at the union of "two rails such as shown in Figure 4 I have shown two'spaced tie bodies of the angle bar construction as at 18, they being placed back 2 i V a 1,697,985

single elongated saddle member 19 "which I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, f overlaps both tie assemblies, thus making is: v

them as a-single supporting" member under A railroad tie comprising a body: member the joint of the rails, and if desired an addihaving an upright portion, ahousing member 5 tional plate as indicated at20 may be emadjacent each end of the tie and bolted in ployed under the angles 18 which results in spaced relation to said upright portion, a

an exceptionally sturdy and unyielding sup- Wooden block Within each housing, and an 20 port for arail joint, as isobvious. overlappin rail supporting saddle member From the foregoing it is apparent that I overlapping the upright portion, block and 10 have simplified and improved materially my housing for the purpose described.

former construction, and provided an ap-. In testimony whereof I aflixmy signature. parently practical railroad tie member. I p

Having thus described my invention, What JOHN SUTINEN. 

